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Cheng Lin (; born 1967) is a Chinese solo singer. Her first involvement in the music industry was at the age of 13 when she released the track "Little Horn". Since then she has sold 25 million albums across Asia. Cheng's latest album was Collaborations the album, which was produced by Grammy Award-winning producer KC Porter.
Cheng is also a keen player of the erhu, a traditional two-string violin. She was taught to play at a young age by her father, and still uses the instrument in her music today. She studied in the United States and learned English, learning more about Western music in the process. She was the first Chinese national to have her music videos air on national television in China in the 1980s.
After releasing her first album, she went on to release two albums in quick succession. Her second album was titled Childhood Cradle, and was released in 1983. A year later a third album was recorded, titled New Shoe, Old Shoe. The track "Panda Mimi" on the album went on to win the best track of the year in China, after it was Top of the Charts of the Year in 1985.
After launching her first three albums, she was issued an Outstanding Youth Award in 1986. In the same year she also performed at the charity concert for orphans in Guangzhou. A year later she released her fourth album, Songs of 1987. She released a number of songs from the album, producing a number of in the process. These videos were some of the first music videos aired on China Television. Later that year she appeared on the New Year's Eve TV special, performing the track "Flying with the wind (Xin Tian You)".
At the end of 1989 she returned to the same show, and performed the track "Kung Fu boy", which aired to over 1 billion viewers on Chinese television.
In 2006, she was invited to tour with the band Ozomatli. While touring with the band she performed using the erhu.
In 2007, she began working on her latest album, with the help of KC Porter. In 2008 she released a greatest hits album, including "Little Horn" and "Flying with the wind" (Xin Tian You). In the same year she also created a song for the Beijing Olympics, titled "Greater Than Gold".
In 2010, she was invited to work on the Global Village project with Spencer Proffer. She recorded the theme song "Citizen of the World". The music video for the song was shot on the roof of the famous Capitol Records Building in Hollywood. In 2011, the album she had worked on with KC Porter was finally released after her 2011 concert, with the title Greater than Gold. The main highlight in her recent career was the release of her greatest hits album.
In 2008 Cheng began work on a book titled Ray of Light.
| 1983 | Little Conch (小螺号) | Feida (飞达) | Beijing Tape Recorder Factory (北京录音机厂) |
| Childhood Cradle (童年的小摇车) | Skylark (雲雀) | Pacific Audio & Video Co. (太平洋影音公司) | |
| 1984 | New Shoe, Old Shoe (新鞋子、旧鞋子) | CAV | China Audio-Video Publishing House (中国录音录像公司) |
| 1987 | Song of 1987 (新歌.1987) | Nanguo (南国) | China Record Co. Guangzhou (中国唱片公司广州分公司) |
| 2008 | Home coming (回家) | Skylark (雲雀) | Pacific Audio & Video Co. (太平洋影音公司) |
| 2011 | Greater Than Gold (比金更重) | JSCP (杰盛唱片) | Guangdong Jiesheng Records Co., Ltd. (广东杰盛唱片有限公司) |
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